Domino’s Pizza employee shot during robbery

A Domino’s Pizza employee is in critical condition after a shooting early this morning at the store’s parking lot, located at the corner of E. 38th Street and Central Avenue.
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A Domino’s Pizza employee is in critical condition after he was shot during a robbery early this morning at the store’s parking lot.

Police were called at about 2:30 a.m. to the Domino’s Pizza at East 38th Street and Central Avenue on the Near Northside. The victim and two other employees had just gotten into their cars and were about to leave work when the suspects arrived, according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report.

One of the three men fired two shots at the victim’s van, striking him once in the chest.

The victim, a 50-year-old Indianapolis man, was in critical condition when he was taken to Methodist Hospital-IU Health.

The two other employees were not injured. One of them told police the suspects took the night’s deposit. They ran south on Central Avenue from the parking lot, the report said.

Lt. Chris Bailey, spokesman for IMPD, said no arrests have been made. The men, according to the report, are all in their 20s and were wearing hooded jackets.

Police also are looking for the five men who robbed another pizza store late Wednesday night.

Police said five men, one was armed with a silver handgun, walked into the Pizza Hut store in the 6100 block of West 10th Street on the Westside at about 10:30 p.m. One of them took money from the cash register. They fled south through the parking lot.